Well, how simple was that? And yet I looked everywhere I could (in the
regular menus) and couldn't find anything at all. What confuses me is why it
started doing that? Did I inadvertently made a change to a normal document
that made it start doing that for every document? Because my documents used
to behave themselves about 6 or so months ago and then started doing that.
Anyway, thanks, it's saved me heaps of time and frustration.

Kathie

"Margaret Aldis" wrote:

Usual reason for this is having your Normal style set to "Automatically
Update" - see

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/formatting...tedcontent.htm

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"kathiemt" wrote in message
...
I have Word 2003 and I'm trying to write a big document. Whenever I bold a
word or a sentence it changes the WHOLE document and takes a loooooong
time
to process it because it is many pages long. I've tried to find what
setting
is causing this - I can't find it. It really is very time consuming and
I've
given up trying to
format as I type because it changes the whole thing time and time again.
Why
is it doing this????

I would be eternally grateful if someone knows the fix for this please -
also, if you respond via the group, can you please also email me direct in
case I don't come back here again for a week or so. I'm trying a few
places
to find an answer.

Regards, and thanks,

Kathie